STEVE JOBS UNVEILS THE IPHONE / ITV BOX
Steve Jobs has truly done it again. I knew back in ’05 that they were developing the IPHONE, but he really has taken the game to a whole new level. Check out:
Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote
~YG
My Global Hustle
Sam’s Daily News – 1.9.07
I NEVER miss the car show, here’s what Detroit had to offer.
Fierce fighting erupts in Baghdad. About that stink all over nyc yesterday.
Questions couples should ask (or wish they had) before marrying… interesting, now you can stop asking me for relationship advise.. the nyt took care of it.
Great article for Stern fans, Artie Lang admits to having a heroine addiction.. and fyi I was a Howard Stern Intern.
First anniversary for Stern on Sirius.
A ‘4th dimension’ roller coaster is up and running in Japan. Watch the entire video this is sick! I want to go..
100 best companies to work for, hmm wonder if they’re hiring.
Nigeria loses billions oil cash.
US strikes in Somalia.
All I want for xmas in an xbox but all i got was dirty socks.
Creator of scooby-doo and the jetsons died
A new bill could make sexually explicit email a crime, so stop sending me porn.
Food for thought.. leftovers.
US Somali air strikes ‘kill many’
The heavily-armed AC-130 gunship can fly at night (file photo) |
The US has carried out at least two air strikes in southern Somalia targeting Islamist fighters, who the US believes include members of an al-Qaeda cell. The militias were reported to have been tracked by aerial reconnaissance and then attacked by a US gunship launched from a US military base in Djibouti.
The US says Somali Islamists sheltered al-Qaeda operatives linked to the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa.
The Somali transitional government says many people were killed in the raid.
The air strikes are taking place just a few days after the Union of Islamic Courts, which had taken control of much of central and southern Somalia during the past six months, was routed by soldiers from Ethiopia and Somalia’s transitional government.
Location of militias and US Navy patrols
The US accuses the Islamists of having links to al-Qaeda – charges they deny.
‘Boy killed’
Witnesses told the BBC Somali service that areas near the town of Afmadow were being bombed on Tuesday.
They report hearing heavy firing in a number of areas and have seen military helicopters flying overhead.
On Monday, the nearby village of Hayo was bombed.
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Somali interim president |
The US has a right to bombard terrorist suspects who attacked its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania 
“My four-year-old boy was killed in the strike,” Mohamed Mahmud Burale told the BBC from the area.
Local MP Abdulkadir Haji Mohamoud Dhagane told the BBC that 27 people, mostly civilians, had been killed near Afmadow.
“Thousands of Somalis are caught between the rock and hard place as they are in the middle of air strikes, Ethiopian tanks and the Kenyan soldiers who have blocked the border,” he said.
Afmadow is 250km north of Ras Kamboni, close to the Kenyan border, where Islamist fighters have been attacked by Ethiopian and government forces.
The island of Badmado off Ras Kamboni was also hit by air strikes on Monday afternoon.
There has been no official confirmation from the Pentagon that the air strikes took place, but correspondents say a statement is expected within hours.
The bombing is the first overt military action by the US in Somalia since 1994, the year after 18 US troops were killed in Mogadishu.
The attack was carried out by an Air Force AC-130, a heavily-armed gunship that has highly effective detection equipment and can work under the cover of darkness.
Credible reports suggest that the Ethiopian air force has set up a base in Kismayo, with two MiG fighters and four helicopter gunships, which may be taking part in the raids.
Al-Qaeda
Somalia’s interim President Abdullahi Yusuf backed the US action.
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“The US has a right to bombard terrorist suspects who attacked its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania,” he said in Mogadishu, a day after entering the city for the first time since the Islamists withdrew.
More than 250 people died in the 1998 attacks in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, for which al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility.
The US also holds the same cell responsible for attacks on an Israeli aircraft and Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya in 2002, in which 15 people died.
In other developments:
- Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says foreign fighters from Canada, Eritrea, Pakistan, Sudan, the United Kingdom and Yemen have been captured in Somalia
- EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana tells the BBC that the EU is ready to help deploy troops in Somalia and casts doubt on the ability of the African Union to send a peacekeeping force
- South Africa says it is considering a request to send troops to Somalia
- The US military says it had sent an aircraft carrier to join three other US warships conducting anti-terror operations off the Somali coast
Amazing Travel Secret #1 by Donna Rosato
Speed Through the Airport
“Tell me if this sounds familiar: You pack everything the night before, give yourself plenty of time to get to the airport and arrive with more than an hour to spare before it’s time to board your flight.
Then you see the security line: hundreds of people corralled into a double-back snake that makes your local DMV look like a model of efficiency. The last thing you want to do is join that line.
So don’t. That’s probably not the only way to your gate. Hundreds of people can’t be wrong. Yes, they can. Many large airports have additional screening points that, while a little out of the way, more than make up for the inconvenience by being rarely used.
So how do you know whether the airport you fly out of has a “secret” security line? The battle’s won before it’s even fought: Log on to the Transportation Security Administration’s Web site, which lists security checkpoints at every U.S. airport and publishes average wait times by the hour at wait-time. (tsa.dhs.gov)
There you can find out that, for example, the wait time at Newark Airport’s Terminal C, Checkpoint 2 is an average of 11 minutes at 10 a.m. on a Sunday. At Checkpoint 1? Two minutes.
It helps to know your airport’s layout too. In general, airports shaped like a horseshoe (such as Dallas/Fort Worth International) have multiple screening points. If the terminals are connected beyond security, you can enter through the least busy line and make your way back to your gate.
At airports with one central security checkpoint (such as Denver), the shorter lines are usually the ones at the outer edges, away from where most of the traffic is funneled.
And airports with hotels attached, such as Detroit Metro (the Westin) or Dallas/Fort Worth (the Hyatt), often have a separate security entrance for hotel guests, but anyone can use it.
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